No. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT : MIRIDAE. 645 



6. Pronotal disk with base and lateral .margins dark f usco-reddish ; 



scutellum yellow, with a red mark at each side on apical half but 



without vittae at middle of base (p. 646) infuscatus 



Pronotal disk chiefly pale, not distinctly darkened laterally or at 

 base ; base of scutellum with an orange colored vitta each side 

 of median line and frequently extending to join with orange mark 

 at each side of apical half (p. 647) olseni n. sp. 



7. (1) Antennal segment ii without slender blackish line on anterior 



aspect; embolium and outer half of corium marked with reddish 8 

 Antennal segment ii pale but with slender blackish line on anterior 

 aspect ; embolium and outer half of corium green ; clavus green- 

 ish to fuscous, with a rather large irregular reddish blotch on 

 middle and a smaller one on basal half (p. 649) tibialis 



8. Hemelytra with triangular area just before cuneus, yellow; clavus, 



basal area of corium and embolium, and cuneus, bright red but 



irrorate with paler maculations (p. 651) venustus n. sp. 



Hemelytra with apical area of corium marked with reddish, or if 

 not, then basal half of corium without bright red 9 



9. Hind femora chiefly pale, marked with reddish only on apical half 10 

 Hind femora heavily marked with red, the red color inclosing pale 



irrorations, basal one-third pale ; hemelytra marked with dark 

 red reticulations, more nearly fusco-reddish on basal half of 



corium (p. 654) depictus n. sp. 



10. Dorsum pale, hemelytra reticulately marked with orange or pale 

 reddish, apical area of corium as distinctly marked as the basal 



half ; membrane pale, somewhat dusky at base (p. 653) puella 



Dorsum pale greenish yellow, reticulation of hemelytra dusky, 

 apical area of corium without dark marks ; membrane infuscated 



(p. 652) caryae n. sp. 

 P. quercicola Knight. 



Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, xv, 60, 1920. 



Male: Length 4.7mm., width 1.7mm. Head: Width .91 mm., 

 vertex .3 mm., basal half of lora, spot each side of tylus, trans- 

 versely across the front and four marks on vertex, red, front with 

 prominent pale hairs. Rostrum, length 2.2 mm., attaining base of 

 genital segment, pale, infuscated at apex. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .97 mm., pale, three irregular 

 marks on dorsal surface, broadly banded at apex with fusco- 

 brownish or reddish, beset with six to eight prominent pale spines ; 

 ii, 2.25 mm., pale brownish, pale annulus at base, next to this and 

 again at apex darker fuscous; iii, 1.25mm., fusco-brownish, 

 annulated with paler at base, middle and narrowly at apex ; iv, 

 1.04 mm., fuscous. 



Pronotum: Yellowish, outer half of calli and extending broadly 

 to the rear, narrowing and curving inward to form submarginal 

 line on middle two-fourths, but interrupted at median line, fusco- 

 brownish to dark fuscous ; submarginal line frequently forming 

 two blackish points each side of the median line, narrow basal 

 margin pale; yellowish to dusky pubescent, longest hairs situated 

 anteriorly and on collar. Scutellum pale, median line frequently 

 reddish, each side of this with an indistinct vitta composed of small 

 brownish dots. 



Hemelytra : Pale, more or less translucent, an irregular patch 



